CNN CEO Jonathon Klein didn’t go so far as to publicly call Tucker Carlson a dick, but he did describe himself as “coming down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp” in announcing the firing of his bow-tied Crossfire shouting head: CNN dumps Tucker Carlson. Klein characterized the dismissal as part of a larger effort to treat the audience with more “respect.”

Unfortunately Carlson is (arguably) one of the least objectionable wingnuts out there. He is at least occasionally able to recognize the mindless hypocrisy and idiocy of the right (http://tinyurl.com/486eh).

Dubya could feed puppies through a woodchipper on the White House lawn and Hannity, Limbaugh and O’Reilly wouldn’t say “boo”.